13 October, 2016

Mexico to start new search for Ayotzinapa students

Mexico's
Attorney General Arely Gomez said Tuesday that another search for the
missing students from Ayotzinapa will be launched next week in the
towns of Iguala, Cocula and Guerrero, two years after they were
reported disappeared during a clash with federal and local police.

The
investigation will involve foreign criminologists, representatives of
their relatives and members of the Inter-American Commission on Human
Rights. Authorities will use a special technology to obtain
underground 3-D images, in a bid to find possible mass graves.

In a
four-hour press conference, Gomez added that she will continue the
investigation against her predecessor Tomas Zeron de Lucio, accused
of having modified the crime scene.

She also
addressed the mass graves found in Coahuila and Tlaxcala, where
thousands of human bones were dug up, saying that the local general
attorney's offices will continue the investigation. She did not rule
out the possibility that her office could interfere in the
proceedings at some point.

Referring to
drug kingpin El Chapo, she said she hoped to have him extradited by
the end of the year, although she warned, such procedures can take
“up to five years.”